After years of planning and hoping, with many frustrations along the way, Cocteau in the Underworld – the opera composed by Ed Hughes with a libretto by me – received its first full-length performance this weekend in two sold out performances, as part of the Grimeborn Festival at the Arcola Theatre. Many thanks to our …
cocteau in the underworld trailer from william reynolds on Vimeo. William Reynolds, designer and video maker for the forthcoming Grimeborn Festival production of Cocteau in the Underworld, has put together a fabulous trailer for the opera which is now available for viewing on vimeo. For anyone who’s interested in knowing a bit more about CITU, …
I’m told that tickets are now on sale for the 2010 Grimeborn Opera Festival, which will feature an opera that I worked on as librettist. The piece is COCTEAU IN THE UNDERWORLD, composed by Ed Hughes, and it’s being shown as part of a double bill with Philip Glass‘s opera version of Cocteau’s LES ENFANTS …
Will Reynolds at Metta Theatre sent me through a clip of the video sequence he and Poppy Burton-Morgan produced for the recent performance of Cocteau in the Underworld at the Linbury Theatre. I thought I’d share them: Loren O’Dair as Eurydice. Eurydice again, with burning candle and book. “Eternal Orpheus, more voice than man…” …
“It’s like Britain’s Got Talent, except all the performers are talented and… there’s no Jedward. Hmmm. Jedward: The Opera, now there’s an idea!” That was how composer – and our compere for the evening – Orlando Gough chose to introduce the first Exposure evening, featuring snapshots of operas in development, which was held last night …